MARINE LOVERS
First of all, there is the metaphor of the puncture. This is what we have inherited in the business of interpretation: piercings. Piercing the depths, always on the side of violence, echoes of the master's hand. Nietzsche's styles, in the words of Derrida, "would seem to advance in the manner of a spur of sorts (eperon)."
There are several moments here: a ship that comes, its rostrum cleaving the surface of the ocean, coming, coming; the rocks on which the waves break in an endless encore; a sudden sighting of LAND, after being out in nothing but sea, looking for land... need I say that in any return all soils are foreign?
Marine lovers meet in the pores of vision, seeing themselves only through the belated answer to the call of the sea. This is the beginning of post-colonial eyes--blind I's born from nautical ruptures through the centuries, always beside themselves, always answering the call of the colonizer who has come to invade, to rule, to say. I was born in a colony.
"In the Penal Colony" Kafka noted that there is "no point in telling" the prisoner the sentence which has been passed on him for "he'll learn it on his body." Indeed, porous, blind and marked, we desire in the field of the Other's violence. Some tattoos are without pigment.
Simon Leung
As A to Z Administration, Andrea Zittel claims not so much an individual identity as a compilation of ideals and ambitions inherent within the "modern condition".
A to Z supervises an evolution of it's client's mental, emotional and physical states through the supply of a set of services adapted to each individual. It designs programs in order to reorganize and simplify it's clients living conditions. It provides them with a discipline they would not have imposed upon themselves.
"It is really interesting to find out how imposing a structure on people actually makes them feel more relaxed, more in control."
On October 23, A to Z Administration will be proud to present it's newest living unit and two personalized uniforms. Both the living unit and the uniforms function as armatures for the elements and motions of everyday function. Once inhabited, these units become constant and controllable nuclei to be situated within any surroundings.
A to Z Administration: "Administering Our Designs to Your Needs"
Andrea Zittel
"TATTOO COLLECTION"
Including: Martine Aballea, Vito Acconci, Richard Agerbeek, Mario Airo, William Anastasi, Curtis Anderson, Giovanni Anselmo, Jean-Philippe Antoine, John Armleder, L.C. Armstrong, Michel Aubry, Lutz Bacher, Jamey Bair, John Baldessari, Phyllis Baldino, Nancy Barton, Basserode, Alan Belcher, Ben, Tonino Benacquista, John M. Bennet, Cindy Bernard, Sarah V. Bernard, Gilles Berquet, Ashley Bickerton, Dike Blair, John-CharlesBlanc, John-LucBlanc, Olivier Blanquart, Ross Bleckner, Wim van den Bogaert, Henry Bond, John Boskovich, Dove Bradshaw, Gavin Brown, Kathe Burkhart, James Lee Byars, David Cabrera, Neil Campbell, Karen Carson, Maurizio Cattelan, Billy Childish, Regine Cirotteau, Larry Clark, Closky, Michael Cohen, Meg Cranston, Cuoghi & Corsello, John Currin, Daniel Daligand, Burke C. Damis, Jac Debierue, Anne Deleporte, Jean-Michel Denoual, Jessica Diamond, Erik Dietman, Noel Dolla, Achim Duchow, Graham Durward, Gretchen Faust, Gabriel Feliciano, Stephen Finke, lan Hamilton Finlay, Robert Flack, Flatz, Jason Fox, Gabina, General Idea, Isa Genzken, Gaylen Gerber, Liam Gillick, Marc Giloux, Regine Girotteau, Nan Goldin, Michael Gonzalez, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Janine Gordon, Gotscho, Peter Grant, Scott Grodesky, Thomas Grunfeld, Laurent Gugli, Peter Halley, Doug Hammett, Steve Hanson, Paula Hayes, Lothar Hempel, Carsten Holler, Jenny Holzer, Axel Huber, Peter Huttinger, Michael Jenkins, Russ Johnson, Bernard Joisten, Kim Jones, Pierre Joseph, Dennis Kardon, Karen Kilimnik, Tom Knechtel, Jeff Koons, La Blonde, Sean Landers, Liz Larner, Ange Leccia, Richard lee, Sebastien Le Guen, Cary Leibowitz/Candyass, Les Levine, John Lindell, Richard Dexter Lloyd, Ingrid Luche, Stephane Magnin, Margherita Manzelli, Christian Marclay, Eva Marisaldi, Thomas Kelly Mason, Plinio Martinelli, Philippe Mayaux, Elisabeth Mercier, Curtis Mitchell, Paul Mittleman, Matthew McCaslin, Cathy de Monchaux, Jonathan Monk, David Moreno, Aimee Morgana, Peter Nagy, Chuck Nanney, Paul Noble, Jorge Pardo, Guillaume Paris, Philippe Parreno, Bruno Pelassy, Theresa Pendlebury, Hirsch Perlman, Philippe Perrin, Alessandro Pessoli, Richard Phillips, Jack Pierson, Leonard Pivi, George Porcari, Ben Porter, Premiata Ditta, Richard Prince, Pruitt & Early, Rai 4, Philippe Ramette, Armando Rascon, Brent Riley, Alexis Rockman, David Robbins, Rombouts & Droste, Kay Rosen, Aura Rosenberg, Sarah Rossiter, Laura Ruggeri, Alan Ruppersberg, Chris Sacker, Sarah Seager, Nikolaus Schafhausen, Julia Scher, Frida Schumann, Peter Schuyff, Jim Shaw, Gary Simmons, Skene and Schafer, John Souza, Tyler Stallings, Laura Stein, Stephane Steiner, Lily van der Stokker, Thaddeus Strode, Kevin Sullivan, Elise Tak, Mark Thomson, Fred Tomaselli, Alessandra Tortarolo, Erik Troncy, Gavin Turk, Enzo Umbaca, Meyer Vaisman, Mark Verabioff, Jean-LucVerna, Jean-LucVilmouth, Olivier Wasow, Billy Weatherford, Mary Weatherford, Sally Webster, Lawrence Weiner, Chris Wilder, Pae White, Thomas Woodruff, B. Wurtz ... and others. (initiated by Air de Paris and Urbi et Orbi)
Over 200 artists designed tattoos for realization, (plus some diversions)
TATTOOING
Tattoos have been found on Hibernates. The world's oldest man, bore the oldest tattoos.
The Fuck Club in Los Angeles, like many other such clubs, fills regularly with a pierced and tattooed nocturnal fauna. Inscriptions on the body are currently enjoying a comeback, principally in the United States, and, incidentally, this phenomenon invariably goes hand in hand with the collective spirit of social micro groups .
PROJECTS
Godard writes the screenplay "Passion", a video, Le Corbusier draws plans for his Radical Towns. In the plastic arts, projects are often confined to studios or buried in the paged of notebooks. There was a time when people talked aout 'preliminary studies'. A project is akin to an intermediate stage on the way to a finished project, with its own qualities that are quite independent of that product. These are the terms of our invitation to contemporary artists to present projects for tattoos.
THE BODY
Artists can be seen enhancing the body, with all its sufferings, and all its pictorial and social representations... Version: Body Art.
THE COLLECTION
Once tattooed, the work becomes part of a (very) private collection. You show it or you hide it.
CIRCULATION
The circulation of goods and persons.
The project may be sold. It can do the rounds of the art market. Once the work has been tattooed, it is outside the market.
It is a work which you carry with you and on you. A primary idea: a work forever. Yet it will disappear with the collector, probably before the actual drawing of the project itself disappears.
TRENDS
Tattooing versus fetish, humor, cryptic work, AIDS, skin, durability, pain, emmory, colors, branding, lucky charm, indices, deciphering, mimetism, cartography, love, sect, sign, logo, sex, accessory, exhibitionism, yakusa...
REFERENCES AND OTHER CELEBRITIES
The Penal Colony (Franz Kaika); The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury); The Tattoo (Junichiro Tanizaki); Robert Mitchum in "Night of the Hunter"; Jean Gabin in "Le Tatoue"; Robert de Niro in "Cape Fear"; Sean Penn in "Indian Runners"
ROUNDTRIP
This exhibition was originally conceived by Air De Paris and Urbi et Orbi. It began at Air De Paris, Nice, travelled to the space of
Jennifer Flay, Paris, in association with Urbi et Orbi, was just showing at Daniel Bucholz, Cologne, and will be on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery. As "Tattoo Collection" travels it has grown and evolved, including more and more projects.